To cite TraMineR in publications please use:
For the package and state sequences:
Gabadinho A, Ritschard G, Müller N, Studer M (2011). “Analyzing and Visualizing State Sequences in R with TraMineR.” Journal of Statistical Software, 40(4), 1–37. doi:10.18637/jss.v040.i04.
For dissimilarity measures:
Studer M, Ritschard G (2016). “What matters in differences between life trajectories: a comparative review of sequence dissimilarity measures.” Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 179(2), 481–511. doi:10.1111/rssa.12125.
For multidomain/multichannel sequence analysis:
Ritschard G, Liao T, Struffolino E (2023). “Strategies for multidomain sequence analysis in social research.” Sociological Methodology, 53(2), 288-322. doi:10.1177/00811750231163833.
For discrepancy analysis:
Studer M, Ritschard G, Gabadinho A, Müller N (2011). “Discrepancy analysis of state sequences.” Sociological Methods and Research, 40(3), 471–510. doi:10.1177/0049124111415372.
Studer M, Ritschard G, Gabadinho A, Müller N (2010). “Discrepancy analysis of complex objects using dissimilarities.” In Guillet F, Ritschard G, Zighed DA, Briand H (eds.), Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management, volume 292 series Studies in Computational Intelligence, 3-19. Springer, Berlin. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-00580-0_1.
For representative sequences:
Gabadinho A, Ritschard G (2013). “Searching for typical life trajectories applied to child birth histories.” In Lévy R, Widmer E (eds.), Gendered life courses, 287-312. Vienna: LIT.
For longitudinal characteristics (complexity, badness, precarity, ...):
Ritschard G (2023). “Measuring the nature of individual sequences.” Sociological Methods and Research, 52(4), 2016-2049. doi:10.1177/00491241211036156, (First published online Sep 2021).
Gabadinho A, Ritschard G, Studer M, Müller N (2010). “Indice de complexité pour le tri et la comparaison de séquences catégorielles.” Revue des nouvelles technologies de l'information (RNTI), E-19, 61-66.
Ritschard G, Bussi M, O'Reilly J (2018). “An Index of Precarity for Measuring Early Employment Insecurity.” In Ritschard G, Studer M (eds.), Sequence Analysis and Related Approaches: Innovative Methods and Applications, volume 10 series Life Course Research and Social Policies, 279-295. Springer, Cham. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-95420-2_16.
For event sequences:
Ritschard G, Bürgin R, Studer M (2013). “Exploratory Mining of Life Event Histories.” In McArdle J, Ritschard G (eds.), Contemporary Issues in Exploratory Data Mining in the Behavioral Sciences, 221-253. New York: Routledge.
Bürgin R, Ritschard G (2014). “A decorated parallel coordinate plot for categorical longitudinal data.” The American Statistician, 68(2), 98-103. doi:10.1080/00031305.2014.887591.
See ‘citation()’ for citing R itself.
Corresponding BibTeX entries:
@Article{, title = {Analyzing and Visualizing State Sequences in {R} with {TraMineR}}, author = {Alexis Gabadinho and Gilbert Ritschard and Nicolas S. Müller and Matthias Studer}, journal = {Journal of Statistical Software}, year = {2011}, volume = {40}, number = {4}, pages = {1--37}, doi = {10.18637/jss.v040.i04}, }
@Article{, author = {Matthias Studer and Gilbert Ritschard}, title = {What matters in differences between life trajectories: a comparative review of sequence dissimilarity measures}, journal = {Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A}, year = {2016}, volume = {179}, number = {2}, pages = {481--511}, doi = {10.1111/rssa.12125}, }
@Article{, author = {Gilbert Ritschard and Tim F. Liao and Emanuela Struffolino}, title = {Strategies for multidomain sequence analysis in social research}, journal = {Sociological Methodology}, year = {2023}, volume = {53}, number = {2}, pages = {288-322}, doi = {10.1177/00811750231163833}, }
@Article{, author = {Matthias Studer and Gilbert Ritschard and Alexis Gabadinho and Nicolas S. Müller}, title = {Discrepancy analysis of state sequences}, journal = {Sociological Methods and Research}, year = {2011}, volume = {40}, number = {3}, pages = {471--510}, doi = {10.1177/0049124111415372}, }
@InCollection{, author = {Matthias Studer and Gilbert Ritschard and Alexis Gabadinho and Nicolas S. Müller}, title = {Discrepancy analysis of complex objects using dissimilarities}, booktitle = {Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management}, publisher = {Springer}, year = {2010}, editor = {Fabrice Guillet and Gilbert Ritschard and Djamel A. Zighed and Henri Briand}, series = {Studies in Computational Intelligence}, volume = {292}, address = {Berlin}, pages = {3-19}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-00580-0_1}, }
@InCollection{, author = {Alexis Gabadinho and Gilbert Ritschard}, title = {Searching for typical life trajectories applied to child birth histories}, booktitle = {Gendered life courses}, publisher = {Vienna: LIT}, year = {2013}, editor = {R. Lévy and E. Widmer}, pages = {287-312}, }
@Article{, author = {Gilbert Ritschard}, title = {Measuring the nature of individual sequences}, journal = {Sociological Methods and Research}, year = {2023}, volume = {52}, number = {4}, pages = {2016-2049}, doi = {10.1177/00491241211036156}, note = {(First published online Sep 2021)}, }
@Article{, author = {Alexis Gabadinho and Gilbert Ritschard and Matthias Studer and Nicolas S. Müller}, title = {Indice de complexité pour le tri et la comparaison de séquences catégorielles}, booktitle = {Extraction et gestion des connaissances (EGC 2010)}, journal = {Revue des nouvelles technologies de l'information (RNTI)}, year = {2010}, volume = {E-19}, pages = {61-66}, }
@InCollection{, author = {Gilbert Ritschard and Marherita Bussi and Jacqueline O'Reilly}, title = {An Index of Precarity for Measuring Early Employment Insecurity}, booktitle = {Sequence Analysis and Related Approaches: Innovative Methods and Applications}, publisher = {Springer}, year = {2018}, editor = {Gilbert Ritschard and Matthias Studer}, series = {Life Course Research and Social Policies}, address = {Cham}, volume = {10}, pages = {279-295}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-95420-2_16}, }
@InCollection{, author = {Gilbert Ritschard and Reto Bürgin and Matthias Studer}, title = {Exploratory Mining of Life Event Histories}, booktitle = {Contemporary Issues in Exploratory Data Mining in the Behavioral Sciences}, publisher = {New York: Routledge}, year = {2013}, editor = {J.J. McArdle and G. Ritschard}, pages = {221-253}, }
@Article{, author = {Reto Bürgin and Gilbert Ritschard}, title = {A decorated parallel coordinate plot for categorical longitudinal data}, journal = {The American Statistician}, year = {2014}, volume = {68}, pages = {98-103}, number = {2}, doi = {10.1080/00031305.2014.887591}, }